The famed crew from Long Island celebrates their legacy and catalog on the popular online concert series. 1 hour ago Although there are other dance music subgenres Black people are behind (Miami bass, ...

Instead of emphasizing chord changes and melody, funk accentuated heavily syncopated beats and rhythmic and repetitive bass lines.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Shimmy Jiyane and Latroit about their new project to reimagine classic House tracks to tell the story of the roots of the genre – translated and sung by the choir in Zulu.

The first electronic music was classical music. Its practitioners—composers like John Cage, Edgard Varèse, Pierre Boulez—were entrenched in the Western classical tradition, and they mostly used ...

Perhaps more than any other style of music, hip-hop songs are best to dance to. In fact, when hip-hop was invented, there were five tenets to the art form, from lyricism to DJing to dancing. So, ...